Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By Jessica Wentz. In July, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and NOAA Marine Fisheries (NMFS) issued a sweeping proposal to amend key provisions of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), including provisions pertaining to listing decisions, critical habitat designations, and interagency consultations. Much has already been written about how this proposal would weaken ESA protections , particularly for threatened species , and make it easier for projects to gain approvals despite potentially ad

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Smith Enviorment

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

September 16, 2018. On August 24, 2018, the N.C. legislature reconvened to change two of the proposed constitutional amendments on the November ballot. This blogpost concerns one of the two, House Bill 913 ( Bipartisan Ethics and Elections Enforcement), discussed in an earlier blogpost. H 913 proposed to amend the Constitution to change the method for appointing members of the State Ethics and Elections Board, but also gave the legislature power to appoint the members of all other state bo

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). On May 10, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 72/277 (“Toward a Global Pact for the Environment”) , which calls for the Secretary General to submit “a technical and evidence-bas

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